ETF Platform Developer (Python)

ETF Platform Developer (Python)
6-12 Months
London (Hybrid) - 1-2 days per week
£#removed# per day (Inside IR35)

We are partnering with a leading global investment management organisation seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join a high-performing ETF Technology team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with Portfolio Managers, Quantitative Analysts and Investment Technology teams, developing and enhancing a suite of business-critical applications that support ETF portfolio management and investment decision-making.

The successful candidate will play a key role in modernising and scaling existing trading and investment tools, improving engineering quality, reducing technical debt and delivering new capabilities across a sophisticated front-office environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and support production-grade Python applications
• Enhance investment workflows supporting portfolio management, trading and risk analysis
• Improve platform scalability, resilience and operational support processes
• Build and maintain APIs, integrations and automated delivery pipelines
• Work closely with Portfolio Managers and Quantitative Analysts to deliver business-critical enhancements
• Strengthen monitoring, observability, testing and production support capabilities
• Contribute to architecture decisions and application modernisation initiatives

Required Skills

• Strong commercial Python engineering experience
• Experience building and supporting production applications
• PostgreSQL and Snowflake expertise
• AWS cloud experience (ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS or similar)
• CI/CD, automated testing and software engineering best practices
• Experience within asset management, investment management, capital markets or financial services
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable Experience

• ETF investment technology
• Bloomberg or FactSet integrations
• Portfolio analytics and risk systems
• Quantitative finance environments
• Front-office trading technology

If you're an experienced Python engineer with a background in financial markets and a passion for building robust, scalable investment technology, we'd love to hear from you.

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